Symptoms and prevention of scarlet fever

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Scarlet fever is rare in life, but some people suffer from this disease. Especially for children, the incidence rate is higher than that of adults. Scarlet fever is an acute respiratory infectious disease caused by Streptococcus hemolysin. It mostly occurs in winter and spring. In the early stage of scarlet fever, pharyngeal congestion and tonsil redness are manifested as fever, sore throat, headache, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms. What are the symptoms and prevention of scarlet fever? Let's talk about it

Symptoms and prevention of scarlet fever

Most of them have sudden chills and fever. In severe cases, their body temperature can rise to 39 ℃ - 40 ℃, accompanied by headache, sore throat, waxberry tongue, loss of appetite, general discomfort, nausea and vomiting. Infants may have delirium and convulsions. Pharynx is red and swollen, and punctate or flaky secretions can be seen on tonsil. The soft palate is congested and edematous, and there may be red macular or bleeding spots large in grains of rice, that is, intramucosal rash, which usually appears before skin rash.

Skin rash is one of the most important symptoms of scarlet fever. Most of them appeared from the first day to the second day. Occasionally, the rash appeared later than the fifth day. It starts from behind the ear, at the bottom of neck and upper chest, spreads to the chest, back and upper limbs within one day, and finally to the lower limbs. A few of them need several days to spread to the whole body.

The rash usually reaches its peak within 48 hours and disappears completely in 2-4 days. Severe cases can last for 5-7 days or more. Submandibular and cervical lymph nodes can be enlarged, tenderness, generally non suppurative. When the rash occurs, the body temperature is higher. When the rash spreads all over the body, the body temperature gradually drops, the poisoning symptoms disappear, and the rash recedes

matters needing attention

Ventilation and disinfection: Children's room to often open the window ventilation, no less than 3 times a day, 15 minutes each time. The tableware used by children should be boiled and disinfected; Used handkerchiefs should be boiled with boiling water. Children recovered, to conduct a thorough disinfection, toys, furniture to use soapy water or Lysol water scrub again, can not scrub, outdoor exposure 1-2 hours.